Railway imperialism in China by Yangwen Zheng
Railway imperialism in China: A political biography is the first and most comprehensive book on history and politics of all major railways in China from the late Qing to the post-Mao era. It investigates the transformation of railways from a bête noire within discussions about reform to the emblematic "engines for empire" as foreign powers used it to carve out spheres of control, and as an instrument of nation making for Chinese regimes. The book introduces new archival sources and a wide range of secondary materials. Boldly conceived, it situates the making of modern China in the context of British, Russian, German, Japanese, French, Belgium and American expansion. It traces China's metamorphosis from a victim of railway imperialism in the Age of Empire to a railway expansionist in the twenty-first century.-
Propaganda and Empire
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Imperialism and Popular Culture
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The colonisation of time
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Human Capital and Empire
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West Indian intellectuals in Britain
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Country Houses and the British Empire, 17001930
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Martial races
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Chocolate, women and empire
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Gender and imperialism
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History, Heritage, and Colonialism
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Crowns and Colonies
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Inner empire
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Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean
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Empire's daughters
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British culture and the end of empire
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Empire of Scholars
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The French Empire at War, 1940-1945
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Silk and empire
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Ireland, India and empire
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Visions of Empire
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Married to the empire
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Imperialism and Music
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Photographic Subjects
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Museums and Empire
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Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 17501820
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Imperial persuaders
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The Victorian soldier in Africa
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Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness
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British Imperialism in Cyprus, 18781915
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Britain in China
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The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Curating empire
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Tigers and the imperial imagination
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Policing and Decolonisation
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Alfred’s empire
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Radio in British India
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Living in the shadow of empire
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Images of the Army
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Empire religiosity
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India and imperial vulnerability
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New Frontiers
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Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand
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Making the British Empire, 1660-1800
Zheng Yangwen is Professor of Chinese History at the University of Manchester
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526195258 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526195259 |
| Title | Railway imperialism in China |
| Author | Yangwen Zheng |
| Series | Studies In Imperialism |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2026-03-03 |
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